Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago - one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth - have been discovered in China, filling a ...

Scientists found a jaw so bizarre they assumed it was broken - they were very wrong.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

Something unusual has slipped back into the dark, fast-moving waters of Sweden’s Göta River: a prehistoric “living fossil.”After more than a century of absence, a massive and ancient fish has begun ...

Scientists in China have identified 15-million-year-old freshwater fish fossils from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, revealing a warmer climate.

A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, identifying 91 previously unknown species that lived approximately 512 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of 20 paleontologists has announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in a remote region of ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our understanding ...

Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...